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Colossians 3:6

The Pulpit Commentary on Colossians 3:6

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The latter phrase is cancelled by Tischendorf, Tregelles, Alford, Lightfoot, Westcott and Hort; but retained by Ellicott and, preferentially, by the Revisers. The witnesses against it, though numerically few, are varied and select, and the parallel () would suggest insertion of the words if originally absent.

"The anger of God is coming" is a sentence complete in itself (setup. ). God's "anger" ( ὀργή) is his settled punitive indignation against sin, of which his "wrath" ( θυμός) is the terrible outflaming (; ); see Trench's 'Synonyms.'

"Cometh" implies a continuing fact or fixed principle; or rather, perhaps, signifies that this "anger" is in course of manifestation, is "on the way:" comp. , "the anger that is coming," not "to come," also the use of ἔρχομαι in , ; .

The objects of this anger ("children of wrath," , ) are "the sons of disobedience." The expressive Hebraism by which a man is said to be s child or son of the dominant quality or influence of his life is frequent in the New Testament.

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